Etymograph

English

skymap

From sky + map.

A compound of sky + map

Proto-Germanic *skiwô ‘cloud cover, haze’

Proto-Germanic *skiwją ‘cloud; sky’

Old Norse ský ‘cloud; (plural) sky’

Middle English sky ‘sky; cloud’

English sky

Medieval Latin mappa mundī

Old French mapamonde ‘world map’

Middle English mappemounde ‘world map’

English map

Today it means

noun Any of several charts or maps, similar to a star chart, that show the distribution of some particular, measurable parameter (such as microwave radiation, temperature etc).

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “skymap”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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